OBSERVATIONS FROM A HUMAN CAMERA...

WONDERFUL BREAKFAST OF TEQUILLA SUNRISE THINKING I'M GLAD I'M NOT CASTING, A DAUNTING TASK TO SAY THE LEAST WHICH IS WHY WE'LL HAVE EXPERIENCED INDIVIDUALS WITH CREDIBLE CREDENTIALS IN ALL POSTS OF COMMAND... I NOTICED WHILE SITTING NEXT TO A WELL DRESSED WHITE MALE, WHO I APPRECIATED HIM FOR NOT CHOOSING TO WEAR A TOO SWEET SMELLING COLOGNE WHICH WOULD HAVE IDENTIFIED HIM AS A MALE SELLING HIS "WARES" WHO MADE CHECKS WORK WITH STRIPES, NOTICING HE WAS A BASIC MALE BY THE BREAKFAST HE ORDERED, EGGS, BACON, HASH BROWNS, ORANGE JUICE, AND TOAST...THE COFFEE SERVED TO ACCOMODATE THE CONSUMER, IN A COFFEE URN, WITH FRESH COFFEE BEANS PRESSED TO HIS LIKING, OF STRONG TO MILD... I SUSPECT HE WAS BRITISH THOUGH HE SPOKE WITH AN ACCEPTABLE AMERICAN ACCENT...AS I WATCHED THE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS WHICH WORKED MY FUNNY BONE...WHILE GIVING A CURSORY GLANCE IN HIS DIRECTION...TO MY RIGHT WAS A MALE WHO APPEARED TO BE ADJUSTING TO AN UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENT WHO COULD HAVE ALMOST PASSED FOR KEVIN BACON'S BROTHER... THE MALE SITTING TO MY RIGHT WAS FASTIDIOUS IN HIS APPEARANCE TO A FAULT, NOT MY KIND OF GUY AT ALL, CONSTANTLY MAKING SURE HIS STRANDS OF HAIR WERE PROPERLY IN PLACE...LOOKING DOWN AT HIS SHOES, WHICH COULD HAVE STOOD A SHINE AND POLISH...STILL AND ALL A QUICK ROLL IN THE HAY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE QUESTION...NO, I DID NOT FOCUS ON HIS SHOE SIZE... LOOKING ACROSS THE COUNTER AT THE PSUEDO LATINO FAMILY OF THREE, MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AND POSSIBLY SON...NOTICING TO SHOW HER AUTHORITY, AS IF SHE WERE THE "DIRECTOR" MAKING A HAND SIGNAL WHICH INDICATED A POWERLESS, "CUT"... WHICH REMINDED ME OF A FILM DIRECTED BY THE ACTOR WITH THE INCREDIBLE SHINY HAIR, LAST NAME GARCIA WHO HAD DIRECTED PETER O'TOOLE, WHO I ADORE AS AN ACTOR, AND MET HE AND HIS WIFE WHO I MET MANY YEARS BEFORE AT A BOAT BASIN IN MANHATTAN WHERE PRIVATE YACHTS WERE PARKED, WITH A PHOTOGRAPHER "FRIEND" WHO HAD TAKEN MANY TEST SHOTS FOR ME AS A FLEDGLING ACTRESS, AS HE HAD FOR MANY THESPIANS, AT NO COST, THOUGH FOR ME THE COST WAS OFTEN A "ROLL IN THE HAY"...OF COURSE I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED KNOWING THIS BEFORE HAND, SINCE I MAY HAVE PREFERRED LAYING OUT THE BREAD, RATHER THAN MY ASS... NOT IN ALL CASES MIND YOU, THERE ARE, AS IN ALL PROFESSIONS SOME HIGHLY MORAL INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDED THE FREE TEST SHOTS FOR MERELY SEEING THE POTENTIAL OF THE SUBJECT...I HAD TRIED MANY TIMES UNSUCCESSFULLY TO GET R AVEDON TO TAKE MY TEST SHOTS BUT COULD NEVER FIND HIM IN HIS STUDIO...I ALSO RECALL A THIN DARK COMPLECTED JAMAICAN WHO HAD TAKEN ME AWAY FOR THE WEEK END, WHO I HAD TO FIGHT OFF WHO FELT THAT SINCE HE HAD TAKEN MY TEST SHOTS, WHICH WERE PRETTY GOOD BY THE WAY, HE HAD THE RIGHT TO MOUNT ME...I DON'T RECALL MY MEANS OF ESCAPE, BUT I DID SUCCEED GETTING AWAY WITHOUT HAVING TO SACRIFICE MY PRINCIPLES, AT LEAST ON THAT OCCASSION, OH THE LIFE OF THE STRUGGLING ACTOR/ACTRESS BACK IN THE 60'S OF THE LAST CENTURY, IN MANHATTAN...(THIS ACCOUNT WILL BE IN MY NOVEL, CURRENT WORKING TITLE, "NOBODY'S GIRL" AND, OR, POSSIBLY "LITTLE BITS", WHICH I'M CURRENTLY WORKING ON IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY... ALL IN ALL YESTERDAY WAS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR MANY REASONS TOO NUMEROUS TO GO IN TO, BUT I MUST SAY, ME THINKS THERE ARE STILL TOO MANY POSERS AS OPPOSED TO ACTION TAKERS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF DELIVERING A POSITIVE AND CREDIBLE DENOUMENT, THAT ARE TRUE DECISION MAKERS, AS I AM SELF-DESCRIBED, IN PROMULGATING MY TALENT TO THE WORLD, WHICH I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, ONCE I HAVE COMPLETED AND KEPT MY WORD AS I AM SUPPOSED TO. (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWENDOLYN L MITCHELL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2015 AT 10:41AM, LA,CA 90046 USA